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Dispute Resolution
In 2019 Best Lawyers listed Gennadii Tsirat among the best lawyers in Ukraine in Arbitration and Mediation. This page records that listing and sets out the record it was measuring:…
Dispute Resolution
Defamation claims in Ukraine are usually lost on proof, not on merits. The presumption that negative information is false was repealed in 2014, so the claimant now carries the burden.…
Contract Structuring
A German and a French company argue inside one system — Rome I. A Ukrainian and a French company do not: there are two sets of conflict rules, one on…
Dispute Resolution
The ICC Rules a Kyiv audience was shown in 2017 are two editions out of date, and the expedited-procedure threshold has moved twice — US$4 million for clauses concluded from…
Dispute Resolution
In October 2017 Anna Tsirat said on Espreso TV that the judicial reform would bring consistency. Eight years on: arbitration cases were funnelled into the appellate courts, while foreign court…
Dispute Resolution
UNCITRAL is the UN body that drafts international trade law. Three of its instruments already bind Ukraine: the Model Law behind the 1994 arbitration act, the 1958 New York Convention,…
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